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Aplocoma brevispina
Taxonomy
Aplocoma brevispina was named by Hess (1985). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Echinoderms, Angulatus zone, Hettangian, Schaffhausen, Hallau, which is in a Hettangian offshore claystone/sandstone in Switzerland.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1985 | Aplocoma brevispina Hess pp. 10-11 figs. figs 1-11 |
| 2008 | Aplocoma brevispina Hess and Meyer p. 34 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
†Aplocoma brevispina Hess 1985
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
|---|---|---|
| H. Hess and C. A. Meyer 2008 | Oral plates probably covered by granules; teeth weak; oral papillae leaf-like proximally, distally two conical oral papillae; ventral arm plates broad in proximal part of arm; three rudimentary arm spines. |